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Sacred trash : the lost and found world of the Cairo Geniza / Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM180 .H64 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Adina.
- Series:
- Jewish encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789--Sources.
- Judaism.
- Jews--History--70-1789--Sources.
- Jews.
- Cairo Genizah.
- History.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 283 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nextbook : Schocken, [2010]
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2012 American Library Association's Sophie Brody Award for Outstanding Achievement In Jewish Literature, Sacred Trash tells the remarkable story of the Cairo Geniza-a synagogue repository for worn-out texts that turned out to contain the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered. This tale of buried communal treasure weaves together unforgettable portraits of Solomon Schechter and the other modern heroes responsible for the collection's rescue with explorations of the medieval documents themselves-letters and poems, wills and marriage contracts, Bibles, money orders, fiery dissenting religious tracts, fashion-conscious trousseaux lists, prescriptions, petitions, and mysterious magical charms. Presenting a panoramic view of almost a thousand years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism, Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole bring contemporary readers into the heart of this little-known trove, whose contents have rightly been dubbed "the Living Sea Scrolls." Part biography, part meditation on the supreme value the Jewish people has long placed in the written word, Sacred Trash is above all a gripping tale of adventure and redemption. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Hidden wisdom
- Serpents and secrets
- All Sirach now
- Into Egypt
- Sorting
- Palimpsests
- That nothing be lost
- A gallery of heretics
- Pieces of the Spanish puzzle
- A Mediterranean society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780805242584
- 0805242589
- OCLC:
- 611551832
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